Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-12-24
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PGOptS hf FEtIbls
Herman stricher, of Reading, Pa,
has the largest and most varied col
lection OF butterflies in existence,
which he has refused to sell FOR 3d.
600.
Among the heaviest taxpayers OF
New York are John Jacob Aston.
S235, o4O; William Aston, $4,000;
estate OF w. II. Vanderbilt, STILL
124; estate OF Robert Goelet. $l07,-
800.
Mrs. Eliza j. Nicholson is not only
the proprietor, but managing editor
OF the New Orleans PIcayune, and she
has been SO successful that she has
seen a debt of $4,000 lifted and the
prosperity Of the paper increasing
from year to year.
The richest man in Vermont is Col
onel Estey of Battleboro. Heis worth
at the present moment $3,500,000,
all made in trade. He never specu-
lated dollar in any of the pet stocks
or bonds.
Reno Gazette: John Mackay is re-
ported to have told some friends in
Virginia City that he did not seek
Fair for assistance, but the offer came
voluntarily from Fair. Mackay tells
it in this way: 81 met him coming
along the street and ne says: John,
think you are distressed, and if you
are, I've got five million you can have
if you like. and let by-gones CO. ac-
cepted the offer, and Jim would have
to kick me all over the bank before
could be made to think he vast a
pretty good fellow"
General Charles J. Paine, who has
done SO much to keep the American
cup on this side of the Atlantic, is 81
years OF age, though he does not look
his years by at least decade. His
figure is tall and spare and there is
nothing nautical in his appearance.
There are scarcely any gray hairs in
his partially bald head, and his mus
tache has not yet begun to change
color. General Paine was graduated
from Harvard in the class OF 53. He
has a splendid war record. He is, in
fact, a centre-board man in every
way.
Lyman Trumbull, the famous ex-
senator, is living quietly at Oakland,
H., taking care Of his garden and his
| law practice. His brother and his
sons live near him. He does not look
much older than he did fifteen years
ago, when Mast so often sketched his
strong and intellectual face. His law
practice is enormous, and is said TO
| be worth $4,000 a year. There are
not half dozen lawyers in the West
who can command fees as large as Ly.
man TrnmbulPs.
General Paine, of Puritan Maydow.
er-Volunteer fame, is a near connec
ton of DIR. o. w. Holmes. The witty
Doctor observed in his letter to tht
reception committee in Boston
proud as / am of their achievement
own that the General is the only
commander ] ever heard OF who
made himself illastrous by runnin.
away from all his opponents"
The death of William r. Sever o
Plymouth recalls the fact that he was
/ one of three persons whose lives GOV
erd the whole period OF New England
history. The first of the trio is Pere
Crime White. born OF Cape Cod, No
vember, 1920 70. S. and who died
aged "a, when the second person
"Grandfather Cobb" was 10 year
old. AIrs Cobb witnessed PeregrlE
Whites funeral, and himself lived t,
be 1o7 years of age, dying when Wit
lam r. Sever was 10 years old. A
Mr.. Sever was wont to express it, h
had shaken hands with a man VIII
had shaken hands with Pere2rin
White" These three lives cover
period OF 2S7 years.